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A handpicked list of the very best things to eat, drink, see and do this February, from Cate Blanchett’s turn on the London stage to the Tate Modern’s anticipated tribute to Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern, London: February 27 – August 31, 2025
Tate Modern will soon lift the curtains on its much-anticipated retrospective of the Australian performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer Leigh Bowery: a man who “reimagined clothing and makeup as forms of painting and sculpture, tested the limits of decorum, and celebrated the body as a shape-shifting tool with the power to challenge norms of aesthetics, sexuality and gender.” The show will track Bowery’s short but radical career, from his defining role in the post-punk London club scene to his “daring and outrageous performances” and his many artist collaborations, not to mention his enduring influence.
Steve Schapiro: I’m Not Here at Camera Work, Berlin: February 15 – March 29, 2025
The American photojournalist Steve Schapiro documented six decades of American history, from the pop cultural to the political, with inimitable style and a knack for encapsulating the essence of his subjects. This month, Camera Work in Berlin will present the largest exhibition of the image-maker’s work since his death in 2022, dividing his images into three key sections: the civil rights movement; celebrity portraits (spanning Barbra Streisand in the tub through Andy Warhol in the Factory), to his many wonderful on-set shoots for films including E.T. and The Godfather.
For a burst of colour on a grey day, head to the Saatchi gallery from February 12, where upcoming exhibition Flowers will reveal the omnipresence of flora within contemporary culture. The display will consist of more than 500 works, spanning art, photography, fashion, archival objects, graphic design and large-scale installations, stretching across two floors of the gallery. Each piece will reveal the ongoing influence of flowers – objects of endless beauty, drama, mythology and symbolism – on creativity and human expression. Featured artists include everyone from William Morris to Tim Walker, Pedro Almodóvar to Nobuyoshi Araki, Viviane Sassen to Vivienne Westwood and beyond.
Anselm Kiefer: Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: February 14 – June 15, 2025
Fans of Anselm Kiefer, head to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum from February 14 for a rare chance to admire some of the German painter and sculptor’s most important early works, all made between 1969 and 1982. Including paintings, photos, prints, artist books, watercolours and mixed-media pieces, the 45 works on display will reveal the impact of Kiefer’s formative years upon his singular oeuvre, from his experiments in different techniques and materials to his early interest in history, literature, philosophy and cultural identity.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night at The Whitney Museum, New York: February 8 – July 6, 2025
New Yorkers, don’t miss Christine Sun Kim’s first museum survey, opening at the Whitney later this week. The American artist’s Kim’s wide-ranging practice uses “sound, language and the complexities of communication” to convey her lived experiences as a profoundly Deaf person in a world where “oral languages operate as social currency”. The show will bring together drawing, site-specific murals, painting, video installation and sculpture, revealing the poetry, politics and humour inherent to Kim’s two-decade-spanning career.
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at C/O Berlin, Berlin: February 1 – May 7, 2025
At C/O Berlin, upcoming exhibition A World In Common will bring together more that 100 works by African and African diaspora photographers, hailing from different generations and geographical contexts. The curation poses a deliberate challenge to the western-oriented conception of the world, offering up an exploration of “alternative historical narratives”, ones that are “deeply rooted in the diverse experiences, philosophies, and knowledge systems of the African continent”. Among the 23 featured artists are Angola-born, Milan-based image-maker Délio Jasse, South Sudan-born, Melbourne-based artist Atong Atem and the late Gambian-British photographer Khadija Saye.
Sarabande: House of Bandits at Selfridges, London: Until 23rd March, 2025
London shoppers on the lookout for the next big names in art, fashion and jewellery design, take a trip to Selfridges’ lower-ground floor, where House of Bandits – the concept store by Alexander McQueen’s Sarabande Foundation, created to support the charitable foundation and its artists – has temporarily set up shop. There you can peruse works by the Sarabande alumnae, plus limited-edition creations from Thom Browne, Craig Green, Jake Chapman and more. The foundation will also host a line-up of talks, artist workshops and VIP events at the space, so keep your eyes peeled.
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker at the Whitechapel Gallery, London: February 12 – May 4, 2025
Meanwhile, London’s Whitechapel gallery will soon shine a light on the late British multimedia artist Donald Rodney, platforming the majority of his surviving works made between 1982 to 1997. Rodney’s practice was defined by his devotion to artistic investigation and invention: his diverse output spans drawing, painting, installation, photography, animatronics and digital media. His work is deeply personal – one of his most famous works House of My Father sees the artist holding a house made from his own skin – touching on themes of racial identity, Black masculinity, Britain’s colonial past and chronic illness, informed by his experiences as a Black British male artist living with sickle cell anemia.
“My mother used to say ‘Arlene – just don’t wander!’” the late American photographer Arlene Gottfried once recounted. “Then I started wandering, but I got a camera because it gave it a little more meaning… a life of wandering is really what it all is.” For decades Gottfried, walked the streets of New York City, capturing the communities, crowds and chance encounters she stumbled upon with sensitivity, candour and a great eye for composition. Now, a selection of more than 30 of her photographs will go on display at the New York Historical, a wonderful chance for New Yorkers to wander back into the city’s past.
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly at The Menil Collection, Houston: Until April 19, 2025
The Menil Collection in Houston is currently host to the first major US museum survey of the British artist Tacita Dean, bringing together her monumental blackboard drawings, groups of rarely shown drawings on paper, found postcards and albumen photographs, and a selection of her renowned 16mm films. The show’s title, Blind Folly, reflects the important role of chance in Dean’s work, and the ways in which she allows the behavior of her mediums to shape how each of her poetic pieces transpires – her chalk drawings are unfixed, for instance, as likely to disappear over time as the clouds and mountains they depict. Alongside the show, Dean will soon release Why Cy, a new artist’s book published by Mack, filled with works made during her residency at the Menil’s Cy Twombly Gallery, where she spent one whole night in the transportive space dedicated the American artist’s work.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at the Hayward Gallery, London: February 11 – May 5, 2025
At the Hayward Gallery, don’t miss All About Love, a new show spotlighting two-decades’ worth of work by the American artist Mickalene Thomas, best known for her large-scale portraits of Black women at rest, embellished with vibrant patterns and dazzling rhinestones. Both referencing and upending the traditions of European portraiture, Thomas’s works show her subjects “confidently claiming space within this male-dominated art history from which Black and LGBTQIA+ people have largely been excluded” – with joyous, endlessly glamorous results.
Dating back to the early 16th century, cabinets of curiosities were the precursor to the modern museum – personal collections of rare artworks and “exotic” objects that were curated to reflect the particular interests and worldview of wealthy collectors. Now, an upcoming exhibition at the museum at FIT in New York will trace the fascinating connections between cabinets of curiosities and fashion, showcasing 200 garments and accessories for the purpose. The display is divided into ten themes, each referencing a genre within the world of wunderkammern, from Illusions (think: Jean-Paul Gaultier trompe l’oeil) to Specimens (Tom Ford zebra print and intricate marine-life-inspired jewellery from Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix et al).
If a contemporary, dance-filled take on an ancient classic piques your interest, make your way to the Old Vic, where Rami Malek can be found occupying the titular role in Oedipus, playwright Ella Hickson’s new take on Sophocles’ epic tragedy. Running until March 28th, this striking production is co-directed by choreographer Hofesh Shechter and Matthew Warchus. Who could resist the chance to see Cate Blanchett in the role of Arkadina, the exceptionally egotistical actress at the centre of Chekhov’s great play The Seagull? A new adaptation by Duncan Macmillan and director Thomas Ostermeier promises just that, opening at The Barbican on February 26 and running for six weeks only. Time to get booking! At the Garrick until April 26, meanwhile, don’t miss Unicorn the provocative new play from Mike Bartlett centring on a married couple whose conventional life is turned upside down when a third party arrives on the scene, promising excitement and inevitable drama.
At Sadler’s Wells from February 27, be sure to catch the four-night run of Deepstaria, the latest production from the endlessly imaginative British choreographer Wayne McGregor, “a highly sensory, meditative pure dance and acoustic experience which reflects on our profound relationship with the void and our own mortality”. At ENO until February 22, classical music devotees are sure to enjoy director Joe Hill-Gibbins’ bold new rendition of Mozart’s beloved opera The Marriage of Figaro – a minimalist staging of a famously raucous tale of “betrothal, betrayal and deliciously bad behaviour”. Last but not least, at the Royal Opera House from February 20–March 12, there’s Light of Passage, the award-winning ballet by choreographer Crystal Pite set to Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Watch “masses of dancers move as a mesmerising whole” in a timely and extremely poignant meditation on the themes of safe passage and displacement, community and mortality.
There are lots of great movies to provide grey-day escapism this month. Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest feature, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, is a haunting political thriller in which a man’s appointment as an investigating judge in Tehran has stark consequences for his family. Christopher Andrews’ stark, nail-bitingly tense drama Bring Them Down stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott in a tale of bitter rivalry between two farming families in rural west Ireland. Another powerful and no-less-gripping thriller comes courtesy of Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel and his latest film, To A Land Unknown. It follows two displaced Palestinian cousins en route to Germany, who fall victims of a smuggling scam in Athens and set out to exact revenge.
The Fire Inside sees US filmmaker Rachel Morrison take on the true story of Claressa Shields, the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Penned by Barry Jenkins, the rousing film follows Shields from her high school in Flint, Michigan to the 2012 Olympics in London, supported by her tough-love coach. Brazilian auteur Walter Salles is back with I’m Still Here, the stirring, visually rich story of a man abducted in 1970s Brazil and his family’s fight for justice. Pamela Anderson makes a showstopping return to the big screen in Gia Coppola’s new film, The Last Showgirl. Anderson is the titular showgirl, a glamorous Las Vegas performer whose life is thrown into disarray by the closure of her revue show after a 30-year run.
This month’s must-see documentary is undoubtedly I Am Martin Parr by Lee Shulman, an intimate portrait of the inimitable British photographer, whose approach revolutionised modern photography. While for a chance to revisit work by two 20th-century greats, head to the BFI, where Belgian director Chantal Akerman and Taiwanese-American filmmaker Edward Yang are the subjects of their own seasons beginning this month. A masterclass in slow-burning, beautifully made experimental cinema all in one place.
For fabulous food and drink offerings this month, look no further. Lunar New Year is upon us and Abby Lee’s Clapton restaurant Mambow is the place to celebrate, ringing in the year of the snake with a dedicated menu available until the end of February. Five new dishes are on offer, including the traditional Prosperity Yam Basket, a deep-fried, five-spice yam ring, filled with Chinese Kung Pao chicken and topped with peanuts, and Chilli Crab Kueh Pie Tee, a Chinese New Year staple, consisting of thin, crispy pastry shells filled in this instance with spicy crab and served with stir fried yam bean.
Notting Hill hotspot Casa Cruz has just launched an enticing new menu too, courtesy of head chef Jacob Rowley. Centred on modern European fare, Rowley’s dishes celebrate the best seasonal British produce while paying subtle tribute to the restaurant’s Latin influences. Expect to sample indulgent day boat crab served with brown-crab-brioche French toast; poached St Ewes egg, topped with shaved winter truffle; beer-molasses-glazed salt-baked celeriac, and much more.
Don’t Tell Dad, a new neighbourhood bakery and restaurant, has just landed in Queen’s Park, serving up all kinds of baked delicacies (such as brown butter hazelnut croissants and bergamot and cardamom doughnuts) and a menu filled with playful takes on British and French dishes. We’re very much tempted by the sound of their oxtail crumpets and dripping crumb, and the truffle and cheddar beignets served with mushroom ketchup.
Bringing the flavours of Nigeria, Ghana and The Gambia to the heart of Marylebone, Shakara is a new restaurant dedicated to authentic African cuisine with a modern edge. Diners can anticipate such delicious-sounding dishes as grilled prawns accompanied by Ogbono relish and grilled lime, and native blue lobster served with pepper soup bisque and tagliatelle, rounded off by coconut panna cotta with papaya and honeycomb for dessert.
Sandwich aficionados, rejoice. Spitalfields Market favourite Crunch has just opened a permanent space in Soho. Here the Crunch team will deliver “a small rotating menu of bold, hearty sandwiches”, served in its signature, crispy brioche-inspired bread, baked fresh each morning. Inaugural offerings include the Patty Melt, featuring truffle beef patties, red Leicester cheese, crispy onion marmalade and black truffle mayonnaise, and the Umami Shroomwich made with fried oyster mushrooms, miso marinated vegetables, nori and shichimi togarashi mayonnaise.
If you love Indian food, we recommend planning a visit to Benares, the pioneering Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair, which has just reopened – replete with a new menu – following a major refurbishment. Blending the finest British ingredients with time-honoured Indian techniques and flavours, dishes range from Dum Ka Truffle Shorba, a sumptuous winter truffle and rabbit stew to Vindaloo made with oysters and Goan sausage and served with sanna (a steamed coconut and rice bun). Here’s to February feasting!
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A handpicked list of the very best things to eat, drink, see and do this February, from Cate Blanchett’s turn on the London stage to the Tate Modern’s anticipated tribute to Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern, London: February 27 – August 31, 2025
Tate Modern will soon lift the curtains on its much-anticipated retrospective of the Australian performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer Leigh Bowery: a man who “reimagined clothing and makeup as forms of painting and sculpture, tested the limits of decorum, and celebrated the body as a shape-shifting tool with the power to challenge norms of aesthetics, sexuality and gender.” The show will track Bowery’s short but radical career, from his defining role in the post-punk London club scene to his “daring and outrageous performances” and his many artist collaborations, not to mention his enduring influence.
Steve Schapiro: I’m Not Here at Camera Work, Berlin: February 15 – March 29, 2025
The American photojournalist Steve Schapiro documented six decades of American history, from the pop cultural to the political, with inimitable style and a knack for encapsulating the essence of his subjects. This month, Camera Work in Berlin will present the largest exhibition of the image-maker’s work since his death in 2022, dividing his images into three key sections: the civil rights movement; celebrity portraits (spanning Barbra Streisand in the tub through Andy Warhol in the Factory), to his many wonderful on-set shoots for films including E.T. and The Godfather.
For a burst of colour on a grey day, head to the Saatchi gallery from February 12, where upcoming exhibition Flowers will reveal the omnipresence of flora within contemporary culture. The display will consist of more than 500 works, spanning art, photography, fashion, archival objects, graphic design and large-scale installations, stretching across two floors of the gallery. Each piece will reveal the ongoing influence of flowers – objects of endless beauty, drama, mythology and symbolism – on creativity and human expression. Featured artists include everyone from William Morris to Tim Walker, Pedro Almodóvar to Nobuyoshi Araki, Viviane Sassen to Vivienne Westwood and beyond.
Anselm Kiefer: Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: February 14 – June 15, 2025
Fans of Anselm Kiefer, head to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum from February 14 for a rare chance to admire some of the German painter and sculptor’s most important early works, all made between 1969 and 1982. Including paintings, photos, prints, artist books, watercolours and mixed-media pieces, the 45 works on display will reveal the impact of Kiefer’s formative years upon his singular oeuvre, from his experiments in different techniques and materials to his early interest in history, literature, philosophy and cultural identity.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night at The Whitney Museum, New York: February 8 – July 6, 2025
New Yorkers, don’t miss Christine Sun Kim’s first museum survey, opening at the Whitney later this week. The American artist’s Kim’s wide-ranging practice uses “sound, language and the complexities of communication” to convey her lived experiences as a profoundly Deaf person in a world where “oral languages operate as social currency”. The show will bring together drawing, site-specific murals, painting, video installation and sculpture, revealing the poetry, politics and humour inherent to Kim’s two-decade-spanning career.
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at C/O Berlin, Berlin: February 1 – May 7, 2025
At C/O Berlin, upcoming exhibition A World In Common will bring together more that 100 works by African and African diaspora photographers, hailing from different generations and geographical contexts. The curation poses a deliberate challenge to the western-oriented conception of the world, offering up an exploration of “alternative historical narratives”, ones that are “deeply rooted in the diverse experiences, philosophies, and knowledge systems of the African continent”. Among the 23 featured artists are Angola-born, Milan-based image-maker Délio Jasse, South Sudan-born, Melbourne-based artist Atong Atem and the late Gambian-British photographer Khadija Saye.
Sarabande: House of Bandits at Selfridges, London: Until 23rd March, 2025
London shoppers on the lookout for the next big names in art, fashion and jewellery design, take a trip to Selfridges’ lower-ground floor, where House of Bandits – the concept store by Alexander McQueen’s Sarabande Foundation, created to support the charitable foundation and its artists – has temporarily set up shop. There you can peruse works by the Sarabande alumnae, plus limited-edition creations from Thom Browne, Craig Green, Jake Chapman and more. The foundation will also host a line-up of talks, artist workshops and VIP events at the space, so keep your eyes peeled.
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker at the Whitechapel Gallery, London: February 12 – May 4, 2025
Meanwhile, London’s Whitechapel gallery will soon shine a light on the late British multimedia artist Donald Rodney, platforming the majority of his surviving works made between 1982 to 1997. Rodney’s practice was defined by his devotion to artistic investigation and invention: his diverse output spans drawing, painting, installation, photography, animatronics and digital media. His work is deeply personal – one of his most famous works House of My Father sees the artist holding a house made from his own skin – touching on themes of racial identity, Black masculinity, Britain’s colonial past and chronic illness, informed by his experiences as a Black British male artist living with sickle cell anemia.
“My mother used to say ‘Arlene – just don’t wander!’” the late American photographer Arlene Gottfried once recounted. “Then I started wandering, but I got a camera because it gave it a little more meaning… a life of wandering is really what it all is.” For decades Gottfried, walked the streets of New York City, capturing the communities, crowds and chance encounters she stumbled upon with sensitivity, candour and a great eye for composition. Now, a selection of more than 30 of her photographs will go on display at the New York Historical, a wonderful chance for New Yorkers to wander back into the city’s past.
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly at The Menil Collection, Houston: Until April 19, 2025
The Menil Collection in Houston is currently host to the first major US museum survey of the British artist Tacita Dean, bringing together her monumental blackboard drawings, groups of rarely shown drawings on paper, found postcards and albumen photographs, and a selection of her renowned 16mm films. The show’s title, Blind Folly, reflects the important role of chance in Dean’s work, and the ways in which she allows the behavior of her mediums to shape how each of her poetic pieces transpires – her chalk drawings are unfixed, for instance, as likely to disappear over time as the clouds and mountains they depict. Alongside the show, Dean will soon release Why Cy, a new artist’s book published by Mack, filled with works made during her residency at the Menil’s Cy Twombly Gallery, where she spent one whole night in the transportive space dedicated the American artist’s work.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at the Hayward Gallery, London: February 11 – May 5, 2025
At the Hayward Gallery, don’t miss All About Love, a new show spotlighting two-decades’ worth of work by the American artist Mickalene Thomas, best known for her large-scale portraits of Black women at rest, embellished with vibrant patterns and dazzling rhinestones. Both referencing and upending the traditions of European portraiture, Thomas’s works show her subjects “confidently claiming space within this male-dominated art history from which Black and LGBTQIA+ people have largely been excluded” – with joyous, endlessly glamorous results.
Dating back to the early 16th century, cabinets of curiosities were the precursor to the modern museum – personal collections of rare artworks and “exotic” objects that were curated to reflect the particular interests and worldview of wealthy collectors. Now, an upcoming exhibition at the museum at FIT in New York will trace the fascinating connections between cabinets of curiosities and fashion, showcasing 200 garments and accessories for the purpose. The display is divided into ten themes, each referencing a genre within the world of wunderkammern, from Illusions (think: Jean-Paul Gaultier trompe l’oeil) to Specimens (Tom Ford zebra print and intricate marine-life-inspired jewellery from Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix et al).
If a contemporary, dance-filled take on an ancient classic piques your interest, make your way to the Old Vic, where Rami Malek can be found occupying the titular role in Oedipus, playwright Ella Hickson’s new take on Sophocles’ epic tragedy. Running until March 28th, this striking production is co-directed by choreographer Hofesh Shechter and Matthew Warchus. Who could resist the chance to see Cate Blanchett in the role of Arkadina, the exceptionally egotistical actress at the centre of Chekhov’s great play The Seagull? A new adaptation by Duncan Macmillan and director Thomas Ostermeier promises just that, opening at The Barbican on February 26 and running for six weeks only. Time to get booking! At the Garrick until April 26, meanwhile, don’t miss Unicorn the provocative new play from Mike Bartlett centring on a married couple whose conventional life is turned upside down when a third party arrives on the scene, promising excitement and inevitable drama.
At Sadler’s Wells from February 27, be sure to catch the four-night run of Deepstaria, the latest production from the endlessly imaginative British choreographer Wayne McGregor, “a highly sensory, meditative pure dance and acoustic experience which reflects on our profound relationship with the void and our own mortality”. At ENO until February 22, classical music devotees are sure to enjoy director Joe Hill-Gibbins’ bold new rendition of Mozart’s beloved opera The Marriage of Figaro – a minimalist staging of a famously raucous tale of “betrothal, betrayal and deliciously bad behaviour”. Last but not least, at the Royal Opera House from February 20–March 12, there’s Light of Passage, the award-winning ballet by choreographer Crystal Pite set to Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Watch “masses of dancers move as a mesmerising whole” in a timely and extremely poignant meditation on the themes of safe passage and displacement, community and mortality.
There are lots of great movies to provide grey-day escapism this month. Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest feature, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, is a haunting political thriller in which a man’s appointment as an investigating judge in Tehran has stark consequences for his family. Christopher Andrews’ stark, nail-bitingly tense drama Bring Them Down stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott in a tale of bitter rivalry between two farming families in rural west Ireland. Another powerful and no-less-gripping thriller comes courtesy of Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel and his latest film, To A Land Unknown. It follows two displaced Palestinian cousins en route to Germany, who fall victims of a smuggling scam in Athens and set out to exact revenge.
The Fire Inside sees US filmmaker Rachel Morrison take on the true story of Claressa Shields, the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Penned by Barry Jenkins, the rousing film follows Shields from her high school in Flint, Michigan to the 2012 Olympics in London, supported by her tough-love coach. Brazilian auteur Walter Salles is back with I’m Still Here, the stirring, visually rich story of a man abducted in 1970s Brazil and his family’s fight for justice. Pamela Anderson makes a showstopping return to the big screen in Gia Coppola’s new film, The Last Showgirl. Anderson is the titular showgirl, a glamorous Las Vegas performer whose life is thrown into disarray by the closure of her revue show after a 30-year run.
This month’s must-see documentary is undoubtedly I Am Martin Parr by Lee Shulman, an intimate portrait of the inimitable British photographer, whose approach revolutionised modern photography. While for a chance to revisit work by two 20th-century greats, head to the BFI, where Belgian director Chantal Akerman and Taiwanese-American filmmaker Edward Yang are the subjects of their own seasons beginning this month. A masterclass in slow-burning, beautifully made experimental cinema all in one place.
For fabulous food and drink offerings this month, look no further. Lunar New Year is upon us and Abby Lee’s Clapton restaurant Mambow is the place to celebrate, ringing in the year of the snake with a dedicated menu available until the end of February. Five new dishes are on offer, including the traditional Prosperity Yam Basket, a deep-fried, five-spice yam ring, filled with Chinese Kung Pao chicken and topped with peanuts, and Chilli Crab Kueh Pie Tee, a Chinese New Year staple, consisting of thin, crispy pastry shells filled in this instance with spicy crab and served with stir fried yam bean.
Notting Hill hotspot Casa Cruz has just launched an enticing new menu too, courtesy of head chef Jacob Rowley. Centred on modern European fare, Rowley’s dishes celebrate the best seasonal British produce while paying subtle tribute to the restaurant’s Latin influences. Expect to sample indulgent day boat crab served with brown-crab-brioche French toast; poached St Ewes egg, topped with shaved winter truffle; beer-molasses-glazed salt-baked celeriac, and much more.
Don’t Tell Dad, a new neighbourhood bakery and restaurant, has just landed in Queen’s Park, serving up all kinds of baked delicacies (such as brown butter hazelnut croissants and bergamot and cardamom doughnuts) and a menu filled with playful takes on British and French dishes. We’re very much tempted by the sound of their oxtail crumpets and dripping crumb, and the truffle and cheddar beignets served with mushroom ketchup.
Bringing the flavours of Nigeria, Ghana and The Gambia to the heart of Marylebone, Shakara is a new restaurant dedicated to authentic African cuisine with a modern edge. Diners can anticipate such delicious-sounding dishes as grilled prawns accompanied by Ogbono relish and grilled lime, and native blue lobster served with pepper soup bisque and tagliatelle, rounded off by coconut panna cotta with papaya and honeycomb for dessert.
Sandwich aficionados, rejoice. Spitalfields Market favourite Crunch has just opened a permanent space in Soho. Here the Crunch team will deliver “a small rotating menu of bold, hearty sandwiches”, served in its signature, crispy brioche-inspired bread, baked fresh each morning. Inaugural offerings include the Patty Melt, featuring truffle beef patties, red Leicester cheese, crispy onion marmalade and black truffle mayonnaise, and the Umami Shroomwich made with fried oyster mushrooms, miso marinated vegetables, nori and shichimi togarashi mayonnaise.
If you love Indian food, we recommend planning a visit to Benares, the pioneering Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair, which has just reopened – replete with a new menu – following a major refurbishment. Blending the finest British ingredients with time-honoured Indian techniques and flavours, dishes range from Dum Ka Truffle Shorba, a sumptuous winter truffle and rabbit stew to Vindaloo made with oysters and Goan sausage and served with sanna (a steamed coconut and rice bun). Here’s to February feasting!
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